LieutenantLackluster
welp
With a new coach, I think it's okay to start a little slow so long as we're clearly headed somewhere with the system that we have. It looks like we are.
I'll have what hes having
With a new coach, I think it's okay to start a little slow so long as we're clearly headed somewhere with the system that we have. It looks like we are.
I'll have what hes having
With Cally, Hags, Stepan out and a new coach who's giving EVERYONE a chance and a road trip that bundles 4 games in 5 minutes, I don't blame him. I think this is a part of the due process. Can we as a fan base having talked about this for thousands and thousands of posts come up with a line that we are confident in with the roster players that we've had to work with? There aren't many options. Truthfully, our two biggest assets are Stepan and Nash, one without the other can be quite underwhelming. Nash and Brassard isn't hopeful, Lindberg, Moore, Boyle aren't going to be enough to compliment Nash. Richards is now a #2C at best. So basically, without Stepan in the line up, we don't have.... well, our leading scorer and without Stepan, Nash is not quite at 100%. It's not to make excuses for Rick but chemistry is in fact a thing. With good chemistry, his apparent half ass effort tonight would probably look a lot better. My point is, we don't have lines ready and that's quite alright. There are a lot of days of practice left. Two more practices before the game in Phoenix and I'm guessing AV will have enough time and opportunity to talk to his coaches and the players and figure out a proper lineup.
God, I'm hoping Step comes up huge this year. All bitterness aside, we need him.
First game I caught live of the preseason. Horrible puck luck and lack of finish hurt the team tonight. I can only really blame Hank for the second goal...the puck knuckled but he wasn't screened at all. Nothing you can do about two deflections, an impossible angle rebound, and a bad bounce off a defenseman blocking a shot in the slot. Don't fret, we're gunna smoke these guys at MSG November 30th.
This was the first game most of the opening night lineup, save Stepan, played together. Have some patience. Powe and Pyatt have no right to be playing once Callahan and Hagelin come back. I think Fast an Miller stick once everyone is healthy. Keep Asham as the spare and demote the former two guys I mentioned. At the very least, Pyatt and Powe shouldn't be playing 2nd and 3rd line minutes, respectively.
I agree, I thought they played mostly fine. They had a lot of good chances with poor puck luck and there were a lot of really strange goals we gave up
0 dps.
Only watched first period.
We dominated possession. We controlled the game. We attacked. I liked a lot of what we did...
In the end it was 2-0. Bad PP positioning, and interference not called.
I cant really remember the second goal off the top of my head.
Woke up to hear it was 5-0.
So now we got killed in Canada trip. Im not liking this whatsoever.
I am now thinking this:
We got what you wanted you fans! You wanted another high priced, big name, known sniper... We got Nash for ya and left behind two key role players. A team that was #1 in the East under Torts.
Torts was the issue... Well his team seemed to have no problem last night.
We attacked and played OFFENSE and RUSHED like u all wanted. We created a beautiful offense...
Yet now were losing games and by large margins.
Not happy. Worried for season. May miss playoffs.
It may take time for our team to adjust going from Tortorella's system to AV's.
Not scoring -and particularly not finishing- is a huge concern of mine going forward.
Both Edmonton and Vancouver scored a lot of deflected goals against us.
By the way the economy is not improving--not unless you're very rich already. Without getting into partisan politics I'll just say that whatever the Wall St. numbers has very little to do with the greater % of American workers who have been losing their jobs and/or continually to have to change jobs to work for less in worse and worse situations for the last 3 decades. There are less and less decent paying jobs and meanwhile the population is continually increasing. We hit 300 million people around the turn of the century and we will have about 400 by mid century. An economy built primarily around service jobs can hardly keep up with the 300 million--and considering there are no real political initiatives to change the tack we are on and diversify our economy back into other areas such as manufacturing/industrial don't expect any kind of sustained improvement on that situation. The fact is our economy like our political situation like all such systems is dysfunctional and it's evolutionary in its dysfunction.
Anyone who freaks out over preseason is laughable.
I can't believe I stayed up and watched the WHOLE THING.
Lots of shots.
Nash bothers me. He seems to float a lot. He reaches for pucks instead of moving his feet to get to them. He will lay the body on the boards but he won't chase down the other guy and pester him to get the puck back. He took lazy penalties. When the puck is on his stick he seems to NEVER make the simple, or smart, play. He always choose to try the difficult way. Sometimes it results in some really breath taking successes, which are his highlight reel goals and assists that keep everyone happy. More often than not, however, it leads to nothing. He'd rather spin backwards, try to reach around the defender, toe drag with his back to the net, turn and fire a shot from 35 feet out than make the simple shovel pass to the open man and try to get himself open again to get the puck back. He needs to start doing things the easy way, exert less energy trying to be a one man show and exert more energy trying to get the puck back on the forecheck. These aren't my observations based on the pre-season, they are my complaints about Nash throughout his career. Electrifying player. Needs to play a team game, buy into the system and take the simple play that's there rather than try to force the one-man play that isn't.